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In my experience, corporate lawyers don't really understand the distinction and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails a commercial relationship with the company. Unfortunately, neither Mongo nor Elastic really offer useful commercial relationships. That is, pay them a sum and be free to use the widely adopted open-source version of their thing.

The overhead to those relationships for what they do offer is significant.

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> and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails

Choosing something else - at least if you can do it before getting locked in.

Again, very minor use case. Not worth expending effort on. I attempted to convince the lawyers that we should just yolo it because the product had no actual revenue.

Didn't go well.

I can get at least a couple of person-weeks worth of dev done for the cost of sending the email that results in attempting to convince the lawyers of _anything_.

I wouldn't even ask for a legal review of this new Elastic License, if I thought I could tear it out for less than 2 dev-months of effort.

Well, what, then?

SOLR?

Amazon's Open Distro for ElasticSearch is still an open source fork of Elastic Search, so ironically Amazon may be the saviors of Open Source Elastic Search.

Excellent point.

Mongo absolutely offers this. A company I worked for had a contract with them -- these terms are hugely expensive, to the point it was worth switching to the AWS version when we had no AWS services.

Mongo offers what? A license to use their software and have them not harass me or attempt to upsell me or force me to use their management tooling?

Nah.

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